{"quotes":[{"text":"Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planning","collective","collectivism","communism","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","planned-societies","progressives","socialist-utopia","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopianism"],"id":2724,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","communists","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","liberty","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopian-society","utopianism"],"id":15999,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.","author":"Joseph Epstein","tags":["conservatism","conservatives","government","leftism","liberalism","liberals","opinions","politics","progressives","rightism","secularism"],"id":20369,"author_id":"Joseph+Epstein"},{"text":"Donald Trump is launching his own nonprofit group: Borders without Doctors.","author":"Joel Berg","tags":["politics","progressives","trump"],"id":79760,"author_id":"Joel+Berg"},{"text":"America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.","author":"Ron Brackin","tags":["america","american-exceptionalism","historical-revisionists","liberals-and-power","progressives"],"id":97609,"author_id":"Ron+Brackin"},{"text":"Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","individual-liberty","individual-rights","individualist","libertarian","libertarian-party","libertarianism","progressives","progressivism","socialism","socialists"],"id":166678,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a democratic, liberal world whose motto is: “Make choices and manage your choices according to what is good for you,” then there is a built-in tension between that which connects and that which divides. Between the material and the intellectual or ethical. Materialism is not a dirty word, but in this tension between the individual and the material on the one hand, and the communal and the ethical on the other, we are at the end of an age in which the material and the individual are triumphing.","author":"Kalid Gilad","tags":["community","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","judaism","materialism","otherness","progressives"],"id":191080,"author_id":"Kalid+Gilad"},{"text":"American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","collectivists","communism","communists","democratic-socialism","libertarian","libertarianism","libertarians","progressive","progressives","socialism","socialists"],"id":221194,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.","author":"Robert Conquest","tags":["activism","communism","progressives","radicals"],"id":227394,"author_id":"Robert+Conquest"},{"text":"There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["journalism","media","muck-raking","progressives","reform"],"id":250418,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}